On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 02:43:13PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 12:59:58PM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote:
[...]
>> It does however make it harder to read them in the bog.
> PDA.
PDAs suck for reading on. There's a reason why books are larger than 2"
square and higher than 75dpi.
[...]
>> Books do not suffer bitrot or obsolesence of file formats in the way that
>> digital data does. Throw DRM into the mix as well and it's a complete
>> no-brainer to avoid the digital form like the plague.
> Shame that modern books suffer glue-rot, paper-rot, ...
Sure, but not nearly as quickly as electronic versions do.
Even if you've kept the file, it doesn't necessarily follow that you can
still view it.